El Paso is gearing up to receive hundreds of migrant families scheduled to be flown here from South Texas in an effort that organizers say is well within their ability to provide hospitality even during a pandemic.
The arrival of migrant families is an opportunity for El Paso to do what El Paso has always done: been one of the most hospitable and generous communities there is, said Ruben Garcia, director of the Annunciation House, the El Paso nonprofit providing temporary shelter for migrants and refugees.
Garcia said the Annunciation House is ramping up its shelter capacity to more than 500 beds and testing migrants for COVID-19 before they leave for their destinations. A local church has offered another 30 beds. Project Amistad, a local nonprofit provider of social services, is providing transportation from the shelter to bus stations and the airport. And the city s Office of Emergency Management has made a network of hotel rooms originally set up to quarantine homeless
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Hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children were being held this week in El Paso Border Patrol facilities, as border agents worked to quickly process them and government shelters struggled to reactivate dormant capacity.
Although the number of children in temporary Border Patrol custody can fluctuate by the hour, between 800 and 1,000 children were being held this week many for more than two days at a time according to two federal employees who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
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